Improved machine for molding parched-corn balls



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RUSSELL ARNOLD, HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVED MACHINE FOR MOLDING PARCHED-CORN BALLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 30,661, dated November 20, 1860.

To al whom, it may concern/i Beit known that I, RUssELL ARNOLD, of Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Machine for Molding Parched Corn into Balls, and is called Arnolds Parched-Corn- Ball Molding-Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and eX- act description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings making a part of this speciiication, in which- Figurel is a front view. Fig. His asectional View of the upper half of the molding cup; Fig. III, a sectional view of the lower half of the same. l

A represents the outer frame of th chine.

B represents the inner frame of the machine.

C represents a crankshaft.

C represents a rod connecting the crankshaft C with the lower bar ofthe frame B.

D represents the hangers, by which the crankshaft C is attached to the frame A.

E represents the upper half of the moldingcup, which is secured to the upper cross-bar of the frame B, directly over its corresponding cup F.

F represents the lower half ot' the moldingcup, which is secured to the lower cross-bar of the frame A, directly under its corresponding cup E.

G represents a pin, which passes through the bottom of the cup F; also through the lower cross-bar of the frame A.

H represents a corresponding pin, which passes through the top of the cup E; also through the upper crossbar of the frame B, and is held in place by the spiral spring h.

h represents the spiral spring att-ached to the pin H, to hold it in place.

I represents a section of a half-cup attached to an upper cross-bar, with the arrangement of the pin H, and spiralspring IL.

K represents a section of a half-cup attached to a lower crossbar, with the arrangement of the pin.

The nature of my invention consists in so constructing the frames A and B as that they shall be operated by the revolution of the crank-shaft C,and having the cup E attached, as described, to the cross-bar of the frame B, directly over the cup F, which is in like manner attached to the cross-bar of the frame A, so that by the revolution of the crank-shaft C, connected to the frame B by the rod C', the parched corn, when placed in the cup F, is compressed into balls, and,by a like revolution of the crank-shaft C, the cup is thrown open, and the outer ends of the pins G and H are forced against the cross-bars of the frames, as set forth, thus ejecting the ball from the cups, and leaving them free to receive a fresh supply of corn.

My machine is intended to be operated either by motive power or by hand.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The arrangement, in combination, ofthe frames A and B, together with the cupsEand F, the pins Gand H, the spiral spring lt', the

crank-shaft C, and the connecting-rod C', to be used for the purpose speced,substantially as herein described.

RUSSELL ARNOLD.

YVitnesses:

'EDW. BEHL,

WAIT N.` HAwLEY. 

